so, yesterday morning, we looked out our bedroom window, and discovered that our beloved little corner of upscale paradise was in the news...
to explain, here are the three articles google news found, and there is video at the links...
Woman's body found in vehicle at apartment complex
A man walking his dog today discovered the body of a woman in a vehicle at an apartment complex in northwest Albuquerque.
Albuquerque Police Department Lieutenant Trish Ahrensfield says the woman's death is being investigated as a suspicious death.
She had no further details.
Apartment complex resident Kelly Baste says he noticed a smell from the vehicle yesterday but thought it came from trash.
He says this morning, his dog wouldn't leave the area around the vehicle.
He says he went back to his apartment and told his brother he thought the dog had found a body.
Baste says he brother checked and noticed flies around the windshield.
They then called police.
Woman's Body Found Inside SUV
Police are working to develop leads in connection with a body found on Albuquerque's west side.
A man walking his dog Thursday discovered the body of a woman in a vehicle at an apartment complex in northwest Albuquerque near Cottonwood Mall.
APD Lt. Trish Ahrensfield said the woman's death is being investigated as a suspicious death. She had no further details.
Apartment complex resident Kelly Baste said he noticed a smell from the vehicle on Wednesday but thought it came from trash nearby.
Baste said his dog wouldn't leave the area around the vehicle alone, and that he went back to his apartment and told his brother he thought the dog had found a body.
Baste said he and his brother checked it out and noticed flies around the windshield; they then called police.
"I kind of knew already (Wednesday) something was in there, but I was too afraid to go look inside of it. So, that's why I had my little brother look inside of it this morning," Baste said.
APD investigating death of woman as suspicious
Albuquerque police were calling the discovery of a body in a car Thursday morning on Albuquerque's West Side suspicious.
The woman's body was discovered in the back of an SUV parked at the Cottonwood Ranch Apartments near the Cottonwood Mall.
Kelly Baste, who walks his German shorthair dog Nickel in the area, says the dog has been alerting him to the vehicle for several days. Thursday morning, Baste had his brother look into the car, and the body was discovered.
Homicide investigators were called to the scene, but APD spokesperson Trish Ahrensfeld says the incident is being treated as a suspicious death.
Police say the body may have been there for days, or even weeks.
Neighbors had reported smelling an odd odor for days.
One said that he had searched a nearby ditch because of the odor, but found nothing and concluded that the smell must have been from decomposing garbage.
When police pulled the woman's body out of the vehicle, they asked nearby residents to stay inside because of the disturbing sight.
Police have towed the vehicle in for investigation.
The woman's identity will be released after an autopsy Friday.
Eyewitness News 4 has found that the vehicle is registered to a woman who has been missing since June 23, but it's not known whether she is the woman whose body was found inside the vehicle.
the suv:
i took a couple dreameye pics, but, they are awful as usual... i only bothered to take two, because i knew they would not show much, especially because the big ugly stupid tree in front of our bedroom window that we hate so much blocked most of the view...
i might as well post them, no matter how bad they are, though, i used the visualpark software to try to make some sense of what they show...
if you compare with the news pic above, you can pick out the suv... the suv is light grey, then, there is a darker vehicle parked next to it, closer to the foreground, then, a little grey car and a couple empty spaces...
then, in this one, the suv is behind the tree leaves, you can only really see the two closer vehicles, but, this also shows one of the APD patrol cars, and the mobile crime lab they brought in...
needless to say, there were plenty of police, onlookers, and tv people... the entire area was blocked off, from further left than you can see in my pics, including the dumpsters (the little walled area in the foreground of the pics, the trash referred to in the articles), to just beyond the mobile crime lab...
and yes, we had walked past this vehicle more than a couple times in the last few days, though, we never noticed any smell that we can remember...
this entire thing started early in the morning, and, in the early afternoon, they were still waiting for a warrant to open the vehicle... it was getting to be evening when they finally opened it, we stopped watching so closely then, we already had a feeling this event might be making guest appearances in our dreams, no need to add more details...
speaking of horrific events that haunt us, someday i will have to post the story of the last time death was right outside our front door, some six years ago or so in california, when it was a guy attempting to gun down another guy running away from him across the parking lot, and mary right there in the cross fire, with me inside, peeking out the window desperately trying to figure out where she was in all the action...
for that matter, i could relate the time in dallas when we were going out the doors of fryes electronics, just as the three masked gunmen were coming in...
but, those stories can wait until another day...
UPDATE - July 20, 2004
KOBTV - Authorities identify body found in SUV in Albuquerque
[thanks, google news alerts]
and we have been noticing how hesitant people are to park in that spot and it is now marked with a wreath... i will take a pic and post it...
UPDATE - July 23, 2004
ok, i guess "wreath" wasn't correct, but, here it is...
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